Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:47:38 +1100 From: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>, Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>, "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com>, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Subject: Collecting hardware compatibility, Was: i give up Message-ID: <D696E091-C0CF-4B86-94A6-2CBDBED335E0@ish.com.au> In-Reply-To: <49338183.3040500@freebsd.org> References: <20081128234155.0221e263@serene.no-ip.org> <3cb459ed0811291342i524eaab3g1acadcd9cbdb638b@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0811291556g3f08a814td68466ad02dee4fc@mail.gmail.com> <200811291515.01962.beech@freebsd.org> <4932DD73.9000109@freebsd.org> <20081130235621.GA51043@duncan.reilly.home> <49338183.3040500@freebsd.org>
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On 01/12/2008, at 5:17 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Andrew Reilly wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:37:39AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: >>> I wonder if there's some way to partially automate >>> collecting some of this information. >> There is. Just install ports/sysutils/bsdstats, set the >> appropriate frobs in /etc/rc.conf and be happy. Look at the >> http://bsdstats.org/ page from time to time. > > This is a start towards what I had in mind, but > still has a ways to go. Here are a few questions > I would like to ask of such a database: > > "What ethernet cards have people used with FreeBSD 7.0?" Exactly. The problem with that site, although useful, is that the front page comparisons of BSD flavours makes it sound like a competition (despite the text to the left). Most of the statistics are useless on the basis that they are completely skewed by the collection methodology. However, it forms the basis of something that would be incredibly useful. Imagine it also allowed users to note whether the particular hardware is: [ ] not recognised [ ] not reliable [ ] occasional issues [ ] no problems Or something like that, with additional option for making comments. Plus you'd want to be able to see the dmesg for each person who reported the status of their hardware, otherwise it is pretty useless. As Tim said, an extension of this concept would be incredibly useful to the developers and users of FreeBSD. If someone was interested I'd be able to help work on such a project, although my time is relatively limited so I'd not be able to take the lead. Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
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